Artist Statement

I have been drawing since I was a young child exploring lots of subjects, from portraits, landscapes, a single rose, a chair and abstract patterns.

For many years now a grid of half inch squares in light pencil all over the canvas or sheet of paper lays the foundation. I pay attention to each and every square, in a very ritualistic manner.

I liken this process to my daily tai chi practice. The form is set and my task is to simply pay attention and mindfully go through the slow moving dance, learn from and absorb the form, embrace the ƒchiƒ created, and finally, let it go, without attachment.

Increasingly the work have become, “Prayers For Peace”.  “Let us take care of the Elders for they have come a long way, let us take care of the Children for they have a long way to go, let us take care of those In Between, for it is they who do the work”, is an African Prayer I’ve frequently incorporated or on occasion the text from the Tao Te Ching emerges…, and/or another Chair.